Moped gangs? Quick... sell your fixie while you still can!

[avalonracing]

Some tips for those who like to invest in trends:

If this model trend takes hold the way that the fixie fad has I predict that the value of POS frames with horizontal dropouts will go back to a more reasonable $10.

However investments in pencil jeans, ironic T-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses are still a good bet.

Soap and deodorant stock is still flat.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/08/moped/

[johnnymossville]

I can't believe how timely your post is. Just yesterday I was siitting in the car waiting for my wife to get out of work and saw a couple packs of these guys.

[nahtnoj]

I've owned a few mopeds that I bought in non-running condition. It is more fun to get one of them running than it is to actually ride. Of course, if the engine needs anything more than a good cleaning forget it, as the vast majority of parts are NLA.

In running condition they seem to go for $500 or so around here.

[CNY rider]

Some tips for those who like to invest in trends:

If this model trend takes hold the way that the fixie fad has I predict that the value of POS frames with horizontal dropouts will go back to a more reasonable $10.

However investments in pencil jeans, ironic T-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses are still a good bet.

Soap and deodorant stock is still flat.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/08/moped/


Dude, get out ahead of the curve and write a snarky blog ragging on moped hipsters.
Something like mopedsnobbaltimore for a title?

[Lifelover]

Mopeds and Fat chicks!




Both fun to ride just don't let your friends see you! :no:


I kid, I kid!

[JeffS]

Lowery and the other Hells Satans received $90 tickets for not having motorcycle licenses. The Hells Satans claim this is their last trip to Brooklyn.


Wha???

Here you don't even need a license, much less a motorcycle endorsement for a moped.

[CNY rider]

Wha???

Here you don't even need a license, much less a motorcycle endorsement for a moped.

I can only assume that by "here" you mean somewhere other than the Democratic People's Republic of New York.

Because here you don't do anything without government scrutiny and the ever-present associated fees, taxes and outright theft of our state collection system.

[chuckred]

http://www.modrevival.net/quadropheniaalbum.jpg Some tips for those who like to invest in trends:

If this model trend takes hold the way that the fixie fad has I predict that the value of POS frames with horizontal dropouts will go back to a more reasonable $10.

However investments in pencil jeans, ironic T-shirts and horn-rimmed glasses are still a good bet.

Soap and deodorant stock is still flat.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/08/moped/

[rwsaunders]

http://www.modrevival.net/quadropheniaalbum.jpg

Mod or Rocker?

[Der_Kruscher]

These bring out the crotchety octegenarian in me...they're noisy, polluting and riders seem less likely than the average bear to follow traffic laws. Often too slow to keep up with traffic (especially going up hill) so I see them riding in the bike lanes pretty regularly.

[soupless]

Chicago has them too, and we rap about it:

Hollywood Holt, "Throw a kit on it." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_kIUSr7-is)

[goonster]

As someone who experienced the Golden Age of the Moped, if ever there was such a thing (Central Europe, late 70's), I think this nascent fad is a bit puzzling, but also kind of cool to see in the land of the Hawg.

[Kevan]

rocks.

Just not quickly. I keep to the back roads, my biking routes, to keep me from hood ornament status.

[chuckred]

Mod or Rocker?

As I recall, the Rockers rode real motorcycles...

[learlove]

However investments in pencil jeans,

Soap and deodorant stock is still flat.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/08/moped/

what the he!! is up with those things and the people that wear them? Jesus every year I go to the T-town track sale it is like super tight black jean, scuzzy hair and black lipstick fest.

As if it is not bad enough these jeans are ugly enough by themselves the kiddies wearing them seem to have a terrible time finding ones in their size. I bet these jeans were the prototype for the currently trendy "recovery tights/socks".

The worst being the "plump to fat" goth chick slash bike messenger wannbe slash fixie groupie with her fat rolls/love handles hanging out and her a$$ crack showing while wearing said jeans about 4 sizes too small.

[William]

As if it is not bad enough these jeans are ugly enough by themselves the kiddies wearing them seem to have a terrible time finding ones in their size. I bet these jeans were the prototype for the currently trendy "recovery tights/socks".

The worst being the "plump to fat" goth chick slash bike messenger wannbe slash fixie groupie with her fat rolls/love handles hanging out and her a$$ crack showing while wearing said jeans about 4 sizes too small.



Are we talking the "muffin top" phenom????

http://hairtoday.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/muffin-top.jpg




William

[davidlee]

These bring out the crotchety octegenarian in me...they're noisy, polluting and riders seem less likely than the average bear to follow traffic laws. Often too slow to keep up with traffic (especially going up hill) so I see them riding in the bike lanes pretty regularly.

Being a motorcyclist I say this with a grain of salt, but I'll take a plump, muffin-topped hipster on a Vespa any day of the week over an aggro, corpulent, weekend warrior harley rider.
:banana:
david

[r_mutt]

http://www.modrevival.net/quadropheniaalbum.jpg


there's a big difference between scooters and mopeds. motorcycles are rocker, scooters are mod, mopeds are...who knows?

[steelrider]

Saw a bumpersticker in Berkeley the other day on a huge Detroit dinosaur, ONE LESS FIXIE.

[avalonracing]

Saw a bumpersticker in Berkeley the other day on a huge Detroit dinosaur, ONE LESS FIXIE.

I hope it's a comment about the driver and not his road kill count.

On a side note... This weekend I was almost in a multiple car accident. I was in a line of cars on a major road going down a big hill at 55 mph. As the first cars started to go up the next hill they suddenly went from 55mph to about 20. I had to skid (technically ABS) hard to not hit the car in front of me and so did a number of people behind me and in front of me. What was the issue? Well I got in the other lane and halfway up the hill in the first lane was the cause. A 275lb guy on an underpowered scooter. Seems that 55mph wasn't a problem on the downhill but as soon as it started up the other side the scooter said "yeah right".

As a motorcyclist (rocker I guess) and a bicyclist (roller?) I'm all about sharing the road... Provided you aren't a hazard. An untagged vehicle that doesn't require a license or helmet has no business in a lane on a major highway.

At least he didn't have pencil cut jeans on.

[Steve in SLO]

Fer Godsake's, our society is going to hell in a handbasket!
What's next, gangs of aging cyclists spinning compacts?!?
Oh, the humanity!

[Steve in SLO]

OK, after actually reviewing the article, I am now of the firm belief that these "gangs" are completely comprised of ex-high school marching band members.
Cue the Sousaphone.

[William]

Road to Cool:

Get some tats,
Start a blog about anything,
add some poser shots trying to be "cool",
And PRESTO!!! You're the new hipster "cool".


What ever. If they want to lead me out for some interval training....




William :)

[rustychain]

I first saw a moped gang in Germany in 1979. Full leather jackets and everything. I had only seen your typical Hells Angel type motorcycle gang at that point so I admit to breaking out in laughter. Boy did they get pissed.

MopedsnobBaltimore LOL
:beer:

[Blue Jays]

Getting busted by the police definitely gave them East Coast street cred, yo.